The music blog echo chamber was full of Big Announcements this week: all the heavy hitters in the biz got together in New York City for the Digital Music Forum East. Is there anything more exciting than a bunch of rich white guys repeating common sense like it’s amazing news? I guess not.
Now, I might be a cynic, but I’m too young to be jaded, and too laid to be grumpy. A lot of really interesting insights got lost in the mix, and I want to focus on that material for this installation of Weekend Brainfood. The dinosaurs are finally catching on, but the really valuable stuff came from the upstarts, tech-heads and outsiders.
Although I’m writing focused articles and working in series format now, I have a lot of business weirdness going on in my life. I’m still researching the music industry in all directions at once, so this is the first in a regular series of Weekend Brainfood. These are useful and interesting scraps that don’t belong in any articles (for now) but I still want to share with you.
My name is Justin Boland and I'm a rapper, writer and hippie entrepreneur. I work for Back Brain Media and I run Brainsturbator, Hump Jones, Audible Hype and Skilluminati Research.